4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
11:36 a.m.
Anyone know anything about Chorus Systemes and what they were up to
circa 1990? I'm just unravelling a lot of old internal Acorn
code/documentation and the name's cropping up quite a bit...
(I do recall using a distributed system called Chorus in the early 90's,
but I have no idea if that's at all related...)
ta
Jules
4 Mar
4 Mar
12:43 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
Anyone know anything about Chorus Systemes and what
they were up to
circa 1990? I'm just unravelling a lot of old internal Acorn
code/documentation and the name's cropping up quite a bit...
(I do recall using a distributed system called Chorus in the early 90's,
but I have no idea if that's at all related...)
Chorus Data Systems perhaps? They made digitizers (for photos) in the
1980s. I'm currently looking for information on their picture file
format, as nothing I have can decode them.
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7 Mar
7 Mar
6:34 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
I was thinking it was the Chorus that made a Mach (or mach-like) OS. I think
they where a French company.
-brad
Anyone know anything about Chorus Systemes and
what they were up to
circa 1990? I'm just unravelling a lot of old internal Acorn
code/documentation and the name's cropping up quite a bit...
(I do recall using a distributed system called Chorus in the early 90's,
but I have no idea if that's at all related...)
Chorus Data Systems perhaps? They made digitizers (for photos) in the
1980s. I'm currently looking for information on their picture file
format, as nothing I have can decode them.
7:49 a.m.
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 06:34 -0500, Brad Parker wrote:
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Aha - yep. Explains the large amount of Mach source that I found on the
same tape in that case :-)
Definitely French whoever they are/were, hence the "Systemes".
I'm trying to trace copyright ownership on all of this stuff at the
moment to see if I can make it all available. There's some source to
various Acorn things, including some partnership / relationship with
Chorus, and the stillborn ARX OS - plus documents that show Acorn's
thinking on CPU and OS direction in the early 90's. I love finding stuff
like this, but I suspect that I'm not going to be allowed to share it
:-(
cheers
Jules
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
I was thinking it was the Chorus that made a Mach (or mach-like) OS. I think
they where a French company. Anyone know anything about Chorus Systemes and
what they were up to
circa 1990? I'm just unravelling a lot of old internal Acorn
code/documentation and the name's cropping up quite a bit...
(I do recall using a distributed system called Chorus in the early 90's,
but I have no idea if that's at all related...)
Chorus Data Systems perhaps? They made digitizers (for photos) in the
1980s. I'm currently looking for information on their picture file
format, as nothing I have can decode them. 
4 Mar
4 Mar
1:25 p.m.
Jules,
Chorus Systems was bought by Sun in the late 90's
(http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9711/sunflash.971111.4.html) and
subsequently fumbled. Some remnants (http://www.jaluna.com/index.html) have
emerged as a hypervisor for enabling RTOS capabilities on Linux? Or
something along those lines.
Cheers,
Lee Courtney
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Anyone know anything about Chorus Systemes and what they were up to
circa 1990? I'm just unravelling a lot of old internal Acorn
code/documentation and the name's cropping up quite a bit...
(I do recall using a distributed system called Chorus in the early 90's,
but I have no idea if that's at all related...)
ta
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